Recently, Jaxson Davidson, who claimed to have four years of cryptocurrency mining experience, posted photos of his mine on Twitter and said that the rack was full of NVIDIA graphics cards for mining. In fact, Jaxson Davidson hashtaged ETH on almost every comment. The internal photos exposed this time only cover the fourth cryptocurrency mining facility he owns.
The cryptocurrency mining facility appears to be located in the Tonaquint data center in Utah, which is favored by many miners, but sharp-eyed people see the suspected Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition graphics card in the picture. Later, many netizens questioned Jaxson Davidson's purchase of a non-LHR RTX 3070 graphics card from NVIDIA through a "special channel". However, Jaxson Davidson quickly clarified that he only purchased the CMP 170HX mining card through the official channel, and all other RTX 30 series graphics cards were collected from small businesses (not retail channels) at a higher price, and the estimated cost per card was around $1200.
But in the global chip supply shortage environment, the majority of gamers and enthusiasts still want to ask where to get so many popular models of graphics cards. Although he could not dispel the anger, Jaxson Davidson said that he planned to change hands at some point in the future. As for the procurement channel for the dedicated CMP mining card, it was revealed that it would take more than a month to ensure a direct supply agreement with Nvidia. Finally, for consumers who have been in a wait-and-see state for a long time, the risk of taking over second-hand mining cards is still too high. Embarrassingly, waiting for the global chip supply chain to resume normal supply from the pandemic, it is not known when it will be.